He has been charged with improper use of a public communications network, it added.

Cyber cops cuffed Zimmerman on 25 August, following allegations lodged by Mensch a few days earlier.

Mensch took to Twitter to complain publicly about the alleged harassment before taking her complaint to police as she was in the US at the time of the incident.

The Tory politico, Rupert Murdoch botherer and erstwhile romantic novelist, who writes under the pen-name Louise Bagshawe, claimed that "some morons from Anonymous/LulzSec" had threatened her children via email.

"As I'm in the States, be good to have somebody from the UK police advise me where I should forward the email. To those who sent it; get stuffed, losers," she said in August.

"Oh and I'm posting it on Twitter because they threatened me telling me to get off Twitter. Hi kids! ::waves:: I've contacted the police via the House of Commons and the email is with them now. I don't bully easily, kids. Or in fact at all." ®